Some controversy round a voice-actor cameo apart, A Hat In Time was broadly considered a lovely little thing when it launched final 12 months. A correct Mario Sunshine-esque platformer for PC, filled with bizarre characters, intelligent degree design and catchy music. For most video games within the style, issues would finish there, however builders Gears for Breakfast have larger ambitions.
While it’s been in beta testing for a while, in the present day marks the official launch of A Hat In Time’s mod support, permitting gamers to create ranges, costumes, powers and extra for the sport, and built-in into the collectathon’s development programs higher than you would possibly assume.
While it does require a bit little bit of ability with the Unreal Editor with a purpose to piece collectively new worlds for A Hat In Time, the sheer volume of new content created already for the game (together with the map pictured above, Bob-Omb Battlefield) reveals the ability and dedication of the group. For these much less expert in degree design, you too can create new costumes, beauty hats and musical alternative packs which will be added to the sport’s pool of random rewards for finishing elective objectives, which now consists of finishing user-made ranges. Play mods, get mods; it’s a intelligent little reward cycle.
In order to advertise the mod performance of the sport, Gears For Breakfast produced a handful of official crossover instance mods, accessible by way of the Steam Workshop at current. They embrace Raz’s goggles from Psychonauts, which bestows his signature psychic bubble double-jump on Hat Kid, and Lilac’s headgear from Freedom Planet, imbued with the ability to spin-attack. Not lengthy after, followers tailored Mario’s hat from his newest journey, which will be thrown and used as a platform, and even possess some enemies.
Now that the ball is rolling on group content material creation, Gears For Breakfast are holding an official mapping contest with a $1000 prize pool; $500 to 1st, $350 to 2nd, $150 for third. Creators have till April 27th to create a Purple Time Rift degree – a multi-stage problem degree with elective collectible objectives. Full particulars of the competition are available here.
This isn’t going to be the final huge replace for A Hat In Time, both. Gears For Breakfast have promised to comply with in Shovel Knight’s footsteps and make good on some lofty Kickstarter stretch purpose guarantees, together with a full co-op multiplayer mode, and two further worlds to discover. Given that the sport launched with solely 4 worlds, that’s a reasonably sizable new chunk of recreation on the way in which, presumably free for present homeowners.
A Hat In Time’s mod replace is out now for Steam, with plans to roll out the function subsequent week on GOG, though we’ve but to see precisely how the mods might be distributed within the DRM-free model of the sport. For the following day solely, you may decide up the sport on Steam at a 33% discount, bringing it all the way down to £15/$20.
