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Unleash Chaos in Garbage Crew! - A Hilarious Couch-Coop Action Game Now Available

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Würzburg, Dec 8st 2023 - Get ready for a wild ride with Garbage Crew!, the freshly released multiplayer roguelike action game that throws you and your friends into the midst of chaos, all while making you juggle multiple, seemingly unrelated jobs. Developed by the one-person studio xeetsh located in Germany, Garbage Crew! promises endless laughter, unexpected challenges, and medieval mayhem!

About Garbage Crew! In Garbage Crew!, you find yourself part of a team tasked with managing the chaos of cleaning a city. Your primary duty? Emptying garbage cans and containers. But that's just the beginning! Your boss, in a stroke of genius (or madness), loads you up with additional tasks, ranging from firefighting to forest work. The catch? You're always understaffed, and your short-tempered garbage truck driver has no plans to wait for you, even if you're in the middle of extinguishing a wildfire. As if that's not enough, a mishap with your boss's DIY time-reverting device catapults you back to medieval times, where a town under siege awaits your garbage-collecting prowess!

Gameplay Garbage Crew! is a chaotic, couch-coop experience where you and your friends must coordinate your efforts to complete tasks and reach the level goal. It's a roguelike adventure with endless randomized levels set in two completely different environments, each featuring unique mechanics. Prepare for unexpected events, adapt on the fly, and earn money with every run to unlock a plethora of powerups for your next attempt. With multiple jobs to juggle simultaneously, including Waste Collector, Firefighter, Knight, and more, it's a multitasking extravaganza!

Features

Endless Random Levels

Two completely different settings

Local Coop

Online Coop via Steam Remote Play Together

Tons of powerups

Multitasking madness with five unique jobs

50+ Different Skins

Play a level with a custom seed or with custom difficulty

Facts

Genre: Action Couch-Coop with roguelike elements

Release Date: December 8th 2023

Players: 1 – 4 (Multiplayer Focus!)

Multiplayer (Local Coop or Steam Remote Play Together)

Pricing: 18.99$ USD, 21.79$ CAD, 14.79£, 15.99€

Developer: xeetsh

Publisher: xeetsh

Platform: PC, SteamDeck, Linux

Be prepared for laughter, camaraderie, and medieval mischief with Garbage Crew! – Now Available on Steam for Windows, SteamDeck and Linux. Embrace the chaos, communicate with your crew, and conquer the exciting challenges that await!

For press inquiries and review samples, please contact:

xeetsh - Maximilian Schmitt [email protected] Web - Mastodon - X

Resources Steam Trailer Website Presskit Discord Instagram

[xeetsh]

Gargabe Crew! Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Unleash Chaos in Garbage Crew! - A Hilarious Couch-Coop Action Game

Würzburg, Nov 20th 2023 - Get ready for a wild ride with Garbage Crew!, the upcoming multiplayer roguelike action game that throws you and your friends into the midst of chaos, all while making you juggle multiple, seemingly unrelated jobs. Developed by the one-person studio XEETSH, Garbage Crew! promises endless laughter, unexpected challenges, and medieval mayhem!

About Garbage Crew! In Garbage Crew!, you find yourself part of a team tasked with managing the chaos of cleaning a city. Your primary duty? Emptying garbage cans and containers. But that's just the beginning! Your boss, in a stroke of genius (or madness), loads you up with additional tasks, ranging from firefighting to forest work. The catch? You're always understaffed, and your short-tempered garbage truck driver has no plans to wait for you, even if you're in the middle of extinguishing a wildfire. As if that's not enough, a mishap with your boss's DIY time-reverting device catapults you back to medieval times, where a town under siege awaits your garbage-collecting prowess!

Gameplay Garbage Crew! is a chaotic, couch-coop experience where you and your friends must coordinate your efforts to complete tasks and reach the level goal. It's a roguelike adventure with endless randomized levels set in two completely different environments, each featuring unique mechanics. Prepare for unexpected events, adapt on the fly, and earn money with every run to unlock a plethora of powerups for your next attempt. With multiple jobs to juggle simultaneously, including Waste Collector, Firefighter, Knight, and more, it's a multitasking extravaganza!

Features - Endless Random Levels - Two completely different settings - Local Coop - Online Coop via Steam Remote Play Together - Tons of powerups - Multitasking madness with five unique jobs - 50+ Different Skins - Play a level with a custom seed or with custom difficulty

Facts - Genre: Action Couch-Coop with roguelike elements - Release Date: December 8th 2023 - Players: 1 – 4 (Multiplayer Focus!) - Multiplayer (Local Coop or Steam Remote Play Together) - Pricing: 18.99$ USD, 21.79$ CAD, 14.79£, 15.99€ - Developer: xeetsh - Publisher: xeetsh - Platform: PC, SteamDeck, Linux

Prepare for laughter, camaraderie, and medieval mischief when Garbage Crew! hits Steam 08.12.2023. Embrace the chaos, communicate with your crew, and conquer the exciting challenges that await!

For press inquiries and review samples, please contact:

XEETSH Maximilian Schmitt [email protected] Web - Mastodon - X

Resources Steam Trailer Website Presskit Discord Instagram

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[xeetsh]

Deprecating AwesomeNET

Only a bit over one year after the release of AwesomeNET I’ve decided to deprecate it and close its page on the Unity Asset Store. To understand that decision please have a read and see why I’ve made AwesomeNET in the first place.

In early 2019 I was working on a TBS game that was lacking multiplayer networking. I’ve quickly noticed, that every Unity API that made such capabilities natively possible was deprecated and there were no real out of the box alternatives. A quick look in the Asset Store revealed, that tools like Proton were the way to go if you wanted to make a game with online multiplayer without writing the network code yourself. As the pay per concurrent game session system of Proton had no real appeal to me and all competing tools were following a similar model I’ve needed to come up with a solution myself.

Never having made any networked multiplayer game with unity this was quite a journey but after a few months the first prototype was working and it looked great. While working on my game I’ve added all kind of features to AwesomeNET so it would suit my needs. Finally, after the game went more and more to the background and AwesomeNET became my main project I’ve decided to post it to the Unity Asset Store as I’ve thought (and I still think this is the case to this day) if your type of game is a game that AwesomeNET supports (basically everything turn based, no real time), networked multiplayer is extremely easy to set up with second to none networking knowledge and gave you as a developer the freedom to chose whether you wanted to host the servers yourself or give the player a server application they can run themselves.

However, time has passed, and there are new, even better tools that not only work for a small niche of games like AwesomeNET does but nearly for every game you can imagine. I’m talking about tools like Mirror which is basically a newer, better version of the Unity High Level Networking Stack. It’s free and open source! Tools like this are the future of Unity networking and I see no reason to sell a product that costs more, can do less and is way less robust than libraries like Mirror.

After all, I’ve learned a lot while developing, maintaining and supporting AwesomeNET and I still would love to see the ease of use AwesomeNET offered you in any other networking multiplayer tool but I guess the more features a library offers the more complicated and unintuitive it’ll get.

In the end I want to thank everyone that bought AwesomeNET, shared their views and helped to maintain the project! There were a few nice games made with AwesomeNET and I’m proud that I could contribute to them. AwesomeNET will be free to download but will no longer be updated from this point in time.

Thank you for using AwesomeNET <3

[darkxeetsh]

I bless the rains down in Africa. Toto covers. Forever!

I've made a site that plays random Africa covers for all eternity!